Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-03 | Page 12 | 'Nutty' Guest Clue to Mystery Deaths

NUTTY GUEST CLUE GLUE TO MYSTERY DEATHS Cattleman Found Dead Body of Stranger harred LEWISTON July 3 JP- JP The charred remains of an fled fied mans man's bod body a revolver lyng ly ly- lag ing ng near the outstretched hand held the he secret tod today Y of lb ibe apparent mur- mur mur- mur dec der cr of oC M. M R. R s. s we wealthy Idaho cattleman i A week ago y st ay Hibbs on an isolated ranch 80 n rn itte weS south of ot LewIston Lew Lew- ston Iston Iston rode to a construction camp campy by y saddle horse a ar d told forest rangers rang rang- ers rs that a nutty guest was staying with him Last Saturday Hibbs' Hibbs daughter Mrs Lorenna B Barton of Imnaha Ore rode ode to her lath fathers father's rs r's ranch to spend the he day She found his body lying outside the d buri ranch home He Re had lad been shot hot through the back of the he h head ad i Sheriff Walt Allman AUman of ot Grange Grange- yule ille and George W. W Trenary Tre Tre- nary ary of Koos a found the charred remains of ot a man aman nan inside the house The They hey said was undoubtedly the nutty one Hibbs' Hibbs horse was horse was found In a corral unsaddled but bolt still stilt v wearing aring a bridle Sheriff nan deduced that Hibbs had ad just returned ned home that he was vas shot hot after ater h he hd unsaddled his horse hors that hat the nuli nully y man then fired the house and shut himself 4